Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
MAYBE YOU’LL SEE THIS ON TWITTER: So, ha ha, about half the Internet is invisible to Verizon DSL customers today — including at your editor’s office, whoops. Try a proxy server if you can’t see your Favorite Websites. Weirdly enough, Verizon’s wireless broadband domain-name servers seem just fine, so your editor will just work on his teeny tiny mouse-sized HP mini until, uh, tomorrow. “It should resolve in approximately 24 hours,” the cheerful support person in India just told me. Hooray.











In the Watergate era, “Deep Throat” was supposedly a government insider who met Bob Woodward in a parking garage and moodily smoked cigarettes while wearing a trench coat. The fact that Woodward himself was a government spook recently transferred from Naval Intelligence to the Washington Post newsroom led many to assume “Deep Throat” was a group of CIA bigshots nervous about the Nixon Administration turning the nation into a dictatorship, or something. Anyway, Nixon finally gave up for the sake of the country and everybody won Academy Awards for “All the President’s Men” and Henry Kissinger is still at large.